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Look up: mire

  1. mire
    Latin, meaning: wonderfully, mervellously, uncommonly.
    Found on http://archives.nd.edu/mmm.htm

  2. mire
    [n] - a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot 2. [v] - cause to get stuck as if in a mire 3. [v] - soil with mud, muck, or mire
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Mire
    Mire (mīr) noun [ Anglo-Saxon mīre , mȳre ; akin to Dutch mier , Icelandic maurr , Danish myre , Swedish myra ; confer also Ir. moirbh , Greek my`rmhx .] An ant. [ Obsolete] See Pismire .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/71

  4. Mire
    Mire noun [ Middle English mire , myre ; akin to Icelandic mȳrr swamp, Swedish myra marshy ground, and perhaps to English moss .] Deep mud; wet, spongy earth. Chaucer. « He his rider from the lofty steed Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire Spenser. Mire crow (Zoology) , the pewit, or laugh ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/71

  5. Mire
    Mire transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Mired ; present participle & verbal noun Miring .] 1. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon. 2. To soil with mud or foul matter. « Smirched thus and mired with infamy.» Shak. ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/71

  6. Mire
    Mire intransitive verb To stick in mire. Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/71

  7. mire
    Synonymous with any peat-accumulating wetland. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  8. mire
    quagmire noun a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. mire
    noun a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from; `the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president`; `caught in the mire of poverty`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. mire
    (mēr) a figure on the arm of an ophthalmometer, the image of which is reflected on the cornea; used to measure corneal astigmatism.
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  11. Mire
    • (n.) Deep mud; wet, spongy earth. • (v. t.) To soil with mud or foul matter. • (v. i.) To stick in mire. • (n.) An ant. • (v. t.) To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  12. Mire
    Mire is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Bog` The name Mire doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Mire seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Mir


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